out of all measure MDDM.647

[Terrance]

Out of all measure. “Outre mesure.” Beyond all reasonable degree,
“Præter (or supra)
   modum.”


All **reasonable** degree? 

And, Unto the Apparition of Phantoms. 

He sees a face, a face he remembers. What face does he see? 

Mason can't enter the Element because he is all dead weight. 

Dead weight is the the weight of something without life. 

Mason becomes dizzy, the spot where he saw the Indian vanish was as an
eddying of no color at all. That would be black? 


It's noteworthy, imho, that Mason addresses the Revd, the man he is
haunting or being haunted by as the tale begins at Christmastide after
poor Mason has been dead and buried.  

Mason, not unlike the man in Melville's C-M, says he respects their (the
Indians) unhappy history, but he is so anxious when are near that he has
gone a bit mad, seeing things and touching things that he thiks cannot
possibly be there, but are. 

He confesses all this to the RC,b ut when the Rev asks for an example,
Mason says he is worn not give one. Next he says some are Pips. Is that
not an example? Has he broken his oath? What are Pips? And why does
Mason think it a shame that some are Pips? 

Poor guy needs a drink. Smoke?